My Favorite Martian (TV Series)

How to Be a Hero Without Really Trying (1963)

Bill Bixby: Tim O'Hara

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Tim O'Hara : Say, Uncle Martin, I always thought it would take a larger spaceship to get here from Mars.

  Uncle Martin : Well, we have larger models, but a compact is all you need to drop in on a neighbor.

  Uncle Martin : A neighbor? Now, frankly, I never felt exactly chummy about Mars.

  Uncle Martin : Why not? Every seventeen years we're only 35 million miles apart.

  Tim O'Hara : Oh, well, practically across the street.

• Uncle Martin : Tom Edison asked me the same thing about uranium.

  Tim O'Hara : You knew Tom Edison?

  Uncle Martin : Who do you think gave him the idea for the light bulb?

• Tim O'Hara : [pointing to the broken levitator]  What happened to that?

  Uncle Martin : What didn't happen to it? It's been broken more times than a Russian promise.